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    One Season of Sunshine

    Written by Julia London

    Narrated by Natalie Ross

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    About this audiobook

    Adopted as an infant, Jane Aaron longs to know the identity of her birth mother and why she gave her up. Her only clue is the name of the small Texas town where she was born, so she's come to Cedar Springs for answers.

    Handsome ad executive Asher Price lost his wife, the beautiful, mysterious Susanna, in a terrible car crash eighteen months ago. When he hires Jane as the nanny for his two children, sparks fly. Jane finds herself falling in love with both Asher and his children, but begins to suspect that Susanna was not the perfect mother and wife the family portrays her to have been.

    As Jane gets closer and closer to finding out the truth about both her own and Susanna's past, devastating secrets begin to emerge that may be more than anyone can bear. Will the truth bring Jane and Asher closer together or tear them apart forever?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 29, 2010
    ISBN9781441849311
    Author

    Julia London

    Julia London is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than forty romantic fiction novels. She is the recipient of the RT Book Reviews Award for Best Historical Romance and a six-time finalist for the prestigious RITA award for excellence in romantic fiction. She lives in Austin, Texas.

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    • 5/5
      I have roughly two hundred dead tree books "left" on my TBR pile and it's one of my goals in 2013 to severely reduce that pile.

      Julia London has been one of my auto-read authors for a long time now, and as with all writers some books are fabulous while others encourage yawning and skipping pages. One Season of Sunshine, however, was a fabulous read and contained everything I love and adore in a character driven contemporary.

      It's been a long time since I have read such a well-developed book that practically solely relies on the strength of its characters. Of course there is a good plot, but this book is a real winner because of its hero and heroine who make one fabulous couple.

      Nowadays, I tend to read more erotic romances which OSOS definitely is not. But, oh my, when they finally come together, the PG-13 love scene is full of eroticism and the slow build up until they dare to own up to their mutual desire is very very sexy.

      This is a slow paced, small-town romance, with no big booms and crashes and uber alphas, and is recommendable to everyone who is in the mood for a comfort read. A-
    • 4/5
      I want to give it an extra 1/2 star for being a good fit to my mood.Is the book really a romance if the romantic storyline is secondary? It's a strong part of the book, but it isn't the primary focus.As is true of most good romance novels, chick lit, contemporary women's fiction, and probably some other umbrellas that I don't quite understand the boundaries of, the book is very character centered. Jane Aaron has a very good life, but she's realized she can't move on until she gets some closure with the mother who gave her up for adoption. Her boyfriend has asked her to marry him, but she wasn't able to deliver her planned "yes"; work on her Master's thesis has stalled, and she's run out of leads on her birth parents.Only one one option remains-- move to the town where she was born, and see what she can discover there.She takes a temporary job as a nanny to make ends meet. I like that she and Asher Price joke about the cliche of the nanny and the boss having an affair, because it really is a fairly stereotypical plotline.It was written well enough that the strength of the characters, of Jane, of Asher, and of his daughter Riley were enough to get past this. (5 year old Levi was a little two dimensional, but cute enough to make up for it). One Season of Sunshine is the story of Jane's journey, which was a highly enjoyable one to follow along on. She's trying to find answers to the questions about her past, but she's also trying to figure out why it matters, and where she wants to go.I don't know if it was a particularly realistic portrayal of the dynamics of adoption and the adult search for birth parents. The logical side of me thinks that the eventual resolution might not go as smoothly for her as she seems to think at the end. Really, it doesn't matter. That doesn't detract from this highly enjoyable read.
    • 5/5
      fter reading One Season of Sunshine by Julia London, there is no doubt in my mind why this author is a NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR. Yes, the book is a page turner. It is also a novel filled with meaningful incidents and relationships. Jane Aaron is the main character. Jane leaves her adopted family whom she loves very much. She moves to the town named Cedar Springs, Texas to search for information about her biological mother. In Cedar Springs she moves in with a family of three. There is Asher, the father, the teen daughter, Riley, and the youngest child, Levi. This family is in turmoil. They are adjusting to major emotional pain after the death of their mother and wife, Susanna. Levi wets the bed, Riley acts out to get attention. Asher strives to be a mother and father while working hard on his job. He travels often missing how his children are coping on a daily basis.When the story begins, Susanna has died. I learn about her life and personality through the Price children and of course, Asher. I also learn about her from the grandmother, Helen. It’s odd how I felt so connected to Susanna. While she lived, her life was explosive. If a see-saw could talk and move on its own like in a cartoon, I would name the playground toy Susanna. The mother and wife of the Price family suffered with a chemical imbalance. Since Susanna was Bipolar, no day in her life was normal. No day was normal for her family.This novel by Julia London is about how a family copes and doesn’t cope with emotional chaos in the home. This novel is a reality check. Although the source of questions, psychological imbalance and the mainstay of a family, like a mother, might leave involuntarily or voluntarily, the environment does not become strengthened and renewed overnight. There is healing to be done while the person is there or not there. The people left behind will carry the scars, splinters and bruises for many days. However, there is always hope. Hope comes in the form of a miracle. In this instance, Jane is the miracle to a hurting family. Jane is this family’s Mary Poppins. There is one difference. She doesn’t carry an umbrella.
    • 3/5
      Jane Aaron moves to Cedar Springs, Texas in search of her birth mother. Taking a leave of absence from her job as a school teacher, Jane needs to find a job to help make ends meet. After a quick, and impersonal interview she is hired as a nanny by a very wealthy widow. Jane and her new boss, Asher, clash from day one. Lucky for Jane he finds her outspokenness attractive, and doesn’t fire her. As the relationship between Asher and Jane begins to evolve into an intense attraction, they find several obstacles standing in their way. This was a good story, but the characters left much to be desired. Jane came off as whiny and selfish the majority of the time. With her character’s age, and the amount of education she had I found her too immature to really fit the part. Asher was a bit better, but he still ranked low on my interesting scale. With that said, the plot and pace of the story was good. I also really loved what the resolution entailed, and never saw it coming. I don’t usually comment on the covers of the books I review, but I felt the need to with this one. I found the cover of this one very misleading. I know the cover isn’t always a perfect representation of the characters, but this one makes me think this story is about a young girl and her grandmother. Not a 20 something searching for the woman who gave her up for adoption.While overall I did enjoy this one, I never felt any connection to the characters or sympathy when it came to their troubles. A nice solid story, but the lack of realistic characters caused this one to be flawed in my opinion. Still a solid 3 stars considering the pace was enough to keep me reading. I’m usually a character driven reader, and find it difficult to finish books with characters I don’t enjoy. That was not the case with this one as the plot was enough to hold my interest.
    • 4/5
      From My Blog...Belonging and identity are central themes in Julia London's novel One Season of Sunshine. Jane Aaron was raised in a warm and loving home and now as an adult she yearns to find answers to who her birth mother was and why she chose to give her up for adoption. Jane's quest brings her to Cedar Springs, Texas and into the lives of widower Asher Price and his two children Levi and Riley. While One Season of Sunshine is a fairly predictable novel, it is a rather enjoyable one with well-developed characters with a bit of romance mixed with mystery in which Jane must sort out. I am not adopted and I could not understand the extreme lengths Jane went through and what she put her family through in her quest to find the birth mother who chose to give her up for adoption when she was a baby. I did feel for the Price family and for Susanna, whose death the reader learns about in the beginning of the book, quite possibly because I understand what it is like to be close to someone with bi-polar disorder and how dreadful it can be for all involved. All in all, London writes an intriguing novel, raising many questions that would make for excellent discussions in a book discussion group. I would recommend One Season of Sunshine to anyone looking for a good book to read over the summer or as a choice for a book discussion group.
    • 4/5
      When Jane Aaron goes in search of her birth mother, she finds a family struggling with loss, a man that has retreated from love and the tie that has brought them together could destroy them or make them whole.I liked the story line and was able to get through the book in two days. It is a good beach/pool book or rainy day read. Easy to get into and enjoyable enough to stay with it.